[LAU] Changed: Copyright laws and such

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:03:54 +0000
Neil C Smith <neilcsmith.net at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 13 February 2013 18:59, Al Thompson <althompson58 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 02/13/2013 09:52 AM, drew Roberts wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Somehow fashion designers manage to make what seems to be decent money
> >>>> designing original fashions even where they do not get copyright
> >>>> protection for their fashion designs.
> >>>>
> >
> > I haven't paid any attention to copyright as it has been applied to
> > "fashions" or clothing, but a brief search gives thousands of hits of
> > "counterfeit" purses and shoes coming out of China, which are then
> > confiscated when they are found at various countries' port of entry.  It
> > would seem that somehow those fashions are copyrighted by the designer.
> >
> 
> That *may* have nothing to do with copyright as much as trademark law
> and passing-off / fraud.
> 
> Neil

If you try to pass off a bag as being a Gucci you'll get jumped on. If you sell
a bag in a similar style clearly marked Guppi you won't be bothered.

The parallel would be, passing an exact copy of a CD as opposed to selling a
cover of the same song. Unfortunately you're likely to get done for the cover.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.